Patents by Inventor Derek Budgell

Derek Budgell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6190596
    Abstract: A process for producing cellulosic shaped objects includes extruding and coagulating a solution of chemical wood pulp in a tertiary amine oxide, and possibly a liquid that does not dissolve wood pulp and is miscible with the tertiary amine oxide, the solution capable of being shaped into objects, the process of producing the shapeable solution employing a first wood pulp with a higher degree of polymerization and a second wood pulp with a lower degree of polymerization, and whereby initially a solution of the first wood pulp with a higher degree of polymerization in the tertiary amine oxide and possibly non-dissolving liquid, and a composition containing the second wood pulp with a lower degree of polymerization, tertiary amine oxide, and possibly non-dissolving liquid, are prepared separately, and the solution and composition are subsequently at least mixed to obtain the shapeable solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Derek Budgell, Ulrich Wachsmann, Wilhelm Kramer
  • Patent number: 5942327
    Abstract: Solvent-spun cellulose filaments from a solution of cellulose in a tertiary amine N-oxide and if necessary water with a strength of 50 to 80 cN/tex, an elongation at break of 6 to 25% and a specific breaking time of at least 300 s/tex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Derek Budgell, Hans-Juergen Pitowski, Ulrich Wachsmann
  • Patent number: 5891370
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing formed objects such as fibers, filaments, yarns, films, membranes in form of flat membranes, hose membranes and hollow fiber membranes and the like, involves pressing cellulose solutions in an amine oxide of a tertiary amine and if necessary water, in particular in N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide and water, through a nozzle and precipitating the solutions in a coagulation bath and washing the formed objects obtained. The coagulation bath liquid and the washing water is processed, if necessary, for recovery of the amine oxide of the tertiary amine. Hydrogen peroxide, peroxyethanoic acid, ozone or chlorine dioxide is added to the coagulation bath and/or the washing water. The substances added can preferably be decomposed catalytically or by enzymes prior to the recovery process of the water and the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel NV
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Connor, Derek Budgell